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Yemen a great desert in the Arabic peninsula ,
located south to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and
left to Oman , has also a shore : mainly on the
Red Sea and on the Gulf of Aden. Yemen has some
natural resources (oil) but unfortunately it is
considered as the poorest Arabic country. Yemen is
now The Republic of Yemen because of the
reunification made on 22nd May 1990. Before that
day Yemen was divided into two separate countries
, the first known as the North Yemen Republic
which was controlled by tribes so far the worst
tribal system in the world , on the other side ,
the Yemen of the South known as the world's worst
communist regime. But in 1994 , a civil war turned
the south and the north against each other.

We are
going to study this civil war in a chronological
order , from where it started to where it ended.
The Government of the North was chaired by Colonel
Ali Abdullah Saleh , member of EL-AHMAR ,a part of
the big tribe : Hached. He was especially
interested for the well being of the petroleum and
oil present in the north's soil. Whereas for the
South controlled by the communist Ali Salem
El-Bide was trying to give the worst soviet image
out of it's self by introducing whatever is
soviet-like to the life of everyday : weapons ,
aircrafts , boats , tanks .. When the
reunification occurred , the republic of Yemen had
to be ruled by one man, but because the citizens
of the Ex-north Yemen where twice as much as those
of the south , the president was chosen to be Ali
Abdullah Saleh. And so the vice president became
the leader of the Ex-south : A.S.

El-Bide. And the
president of the minister's council was Abu Bakr
Haydar El-Attas , who was well known for the
liabilities he had in the past (of which :
president of the southern Yemen). Nevertheless
reuniting two opposite things is difficult , it
was even harder to reunite a communist and a
tribal types of governments. And so in the years
after the reunification , things were not going
very well as the south wanted to keep it's
communist identity and ideology and the north
wanted to keep it's long going tribal system. From
there started some fundamentalist movements each
wanting what in the past was theirs.

Two years
were more than enough to distinguish between the
different structures on the political scheme and
on the socio-economic scheme. It was a while that
Salem El-Bide was shaky , not knowing what he
wants , when came May 1993 he refused to celebrate
the Day of Reunification , just to contradict the
president. And then he stayed more than 2 months
in his property , not attending any council ,
conference or appointment. At that time everybody
felt the upcoming danger, and the local currency
(the Riyal) started it's freefall compared to the
foreign currencies. The divergence in the
atmosphere between the two was getting wider ,
rumors accusing interventions by other states
(close or far away) were floating everywhere Just
so that the hatred between the colonel and the
communist would raise.

Something was needed to
cool the atmosphere , and for that a
reconciliation became imminent , and was seen as
the only way out. It was Sinan Abullouhoum a great
Sheikh of some important tribe who volunteered him
self to "sponsor" the reconciliation , and so he
invited them to his house in Hodayda , a town
between Sana'a and Aden (respectively , capital of
the north and of the south) and there everything
went smoothly. Everybody thought that this tension
was over between the two but six months after ,
Mr. Ali Salem El-Bide called those close to him to
a special gathering in Abian (a southern City)
where Mig23 , Mig29 and Sokhoiy were proving their
abilities in the skies , the communist was
unofficially planning for something big , the
nation felt it , and fear once again filled the
hearts. In April 1994 , in a military camp outside
Sana'a , a big battle occurred between armored
vehicles , each backed up by the south or the
north.

War was at the gates , People started
taking their precautions , Embassies were heavily
guarded. Friendly states like Jordan , Egypt and
France assigned their military advisors in their
embassies to investigate and try to calm things
down , but the three almost died in another small
battle outside Sana'a (Sana'a is a plateau at 2500
m in altitude , surrounded by high mountains)
.Thursday 9 May , at dawn , two Sokhoiys from the
south attacked the airport and The president's
residence ,both in Sana'a . The North released its
Mig 21 , a Sam 9 rocket destroyed accidentally a
Mig 21 , AAA (Anti Aviation Artillery) were
blazing from every where. .. ..

the war was
declared ! 11th of May , the first SKUD missile
took off from the south and landed on a
residential zone in Sana'a killing more than 50
people , In the next 12 hours Embassies started
evacuating their citizens from Yemen whether by
planes or boats. Sana'a had already been hit by a
dozen of SKUDs , but at the same time , the
northern army together with some guerillas from
the northern tribes were heading strait for Aden
(capital of the south located on the border of the
sea and surrounded by a desert). Their crossing
the desert stopped at a southern military base
called AL-ANAD (which means "persistency") , this
base was one of the left-overs of the soviet reign
in the big Yemeni desert , it holds underground
hangars and barracks over a great surface , it was
the strongest airport-military soviet base in the
region. The battle happened over twenty days while
the rest of the south armies were reduced to their
minimum but were still able to launch deadly SKUDs
on Sana'a . the south's last resort was Al-Anad
base , which was defending it's self , meanwhile ,
the north acquired the cooperation of other tribes
, reinforcing their armies at the southern front.
The balance turned in favor of the north , and
finally they swept threw Al-Anad base.

Southern
officials declared that the base fell because of
treachery , but the important was that Aden's last
line of defense and offence fell , clearing the
path for Aden. The northern forces marched threw
Aden , and captured the city. Sana'a was secured ,
no more SKUDs would ever land in the capital. But
Ali Salem El-Bide , Abubakr Al-Attas and many
other high officials ran away without being
caught. President Ali Abdullah Saleh couldn't
really take control of the South all by his own ,
his fellow tribesman who helped him winning the
war (all of them Islamic guerillas) Wanted their
own satisfaction.

All these tribes were extremist
, so upon arrival to a communist town , it was
unavoidable that they will change many things
there , they looted he city , destroyed markets ,
brewers , communist statues , and all alcoholic
drinks were anhilated. They (the northern tribes)
installed an Islamic way of life in the city. They
were uncontrollable , and the President couldn't
do anything to stop them , anyways , he was
somewhere a bit frightened by them , as he was
scared they would turn on him , so he preferred
letting them do what they wanted to do just to
keep them as allies. In Sana'a , which was finally
safe , economic and political worries forbid the
government to rest , and obliged it to try and
find a solution to the problems facing it. Special
envoys from the European Union , IMF and the World
Bank gathered in the capital of the Republic of
Yemen for negotiations and for finding a solution
for Yemen's economy.

Yemen's Riyal was still
falling , it had reached it's peak when 1 US
Dollar was worth 120 Riyals.(before the civil war
30 Riyals equaled 1 US Dollar) . From it's side,
the Government gave the authorization to finally
open private universities and schools and they
started asphalting roads whether in Sana'a or in
Aden. They started also some mega projects with
one goal : assure electricity to every household
in the country , although they started this
project till today it isn't complete. The debts of
the government were growing reaching 10 billion US
dollars. The "Club de Paris" , biggest money
lender in the world , knew that there was no way
that Yemen could ever recover it's debts , so they
deducted 70% of it's debts (write-off) Which left
only 3 billions to refund by Yemen .

So far we've
seen what happened till today , and until today
there is still rivality between northern/southern
Yemeni citizens , it was a boundaries
reunification . More than nation's reunification.
Because those who lived their lives in communism ,
and those on the other side who always cherished
the local authority of their tribe , can never
live under the same roof. If we see on a long term
scale , many north Yemeni pupils are open to the
outside , for example Chicago counts a great
number of Yemenis . The son of the north can adapt
him self , and maybe loose his tribal attitude And
maybe in some fifty years , all tribes would
disappear leaving great and respectful family
names. But those of the south , those who's minds
were brain washed by communism , are hardly seen
to adapt their selves a liberalist/capitalist type
of living, as south Yemen was the harshest
communist regime ever known to man , everything
was for the state , even truly-merchants were
collectivized.

The ex regime there applied
communism even more than in the USSR under
Staline. So far so good , The Republic of Yemen is
still in one peace , but will it really stay this
way ? would it still be united in 20 years ? I
personally don't think so , because It's in
communism nature to always try to mess things up
and the south will never forget it's communist
entity and for sure will have many attempts to win
back it's Ex-south Yemen communist state. It's
been only 10 years since they united , and so it
may not be enough. But the true answer to this
question is yet to come, we'll have to wait to
find out .

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